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The Academy Award for Best Actor
is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.

Seven men have won the Best Actor Award twice: Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, and Spencer Tracy.

1920s

1928
Emil Jannings
- The Last Command
and The Way of All Flesh

* Richard Barthelmess
- The Noose
and The Patent Leather Kid

* Charlie Chaplin
- The Circus

1930s

1930
George Arliss
- Disraeli

* George Arliss
- The Green Goddess

* Wallace Beery
- The Big House

* Maurice Chevalier
- The Big Pond
and The Love Parade

* Ronald Colman
- Bulldog Drummond
and Condemned

* Lawrence Tibbett
- The Rogue Song

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